To which two eagle-eyed viewers immediately wrote in to me: "How is it possible that someone hit a record high in Washington?"

Considering, for example, Seattle's record highs in July are pretty much 90s or hotter and our warmest actual July temperature this year was 84 -- and Eastern Washington's records are all triple digits and they were nowhere close to that, it was indeed a head-scratcher.

But UW research meteorologist Mark Albright has come to the rescue. He said after searching through "voluminous cold records" he found exactly one high temperature record for July in the state of Washington. And believe it or not, it was in Seattle!

A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 79 DEGREES WAS SET AT SEATTLE WA WFO TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 77 SET IN 2007.

Wait, a record high of only 77?!?! The record at Sea-Tac Airport for July 6th is 94, set in 1960, so how could this record be 77?

The "Seattle WA WFO" is the National Weather Service's "Weather Forecast Office" in Seattle's Sand Point neighborhood, which began keeping official records way back in... 1986. It takes decades for the record highs and lows to really get set to what you would normally consider a record. (Put another way, if it was 68 on July 6th in 1986 and then 71 on July 6, 1987, that 71 technically set a record high.)

In other words, the bar is still really low to set a record there (heck, we set a record low there Monday morning too) but since it's now an official climate location, they send out the record reports and, apparently, it was counted as Washington's submission to the 50 states of heat. Even though 79 is barely above normal.

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Walk around the Puget Sound area and you'll notice trees starting to bloom and perhaps the whirr of a lawn mower or two, even though winter still had a solid 3-4 weeks left in its reign.

Seattle finished up February as the warmest on record, on the heels of a very warm January (and record-warm December) as well, and the early spring-time weather has in tandem brought out the first signs of spring.

In what will go down as one of the best -- or worst -- winters on record, depending on what you want out of a Seattle winter, now there will be some meteorological trophies to go along with the memories.

Seattle has set its record for all-time warmest February since official measurements began at Sea-Tac Airport. The average temperature (high temperature plus low temperature, divided by two) was 48.8 degrees narrowly edging 1977's record at 48.7. (And I mean narrowly. Had Saturday just been one degree cooler, it would have been a tied record instead.)